Take the Apple Core Challenge
Are you about to throw that apple core out your car window? Stop! And save a bird. Take the Thanksgiving apple core challenge.
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Free Solo: What’s Worth Dying for?
In the new National Geographic documentary Free Solo, Alex Honnold gives a virtuoso performance like none other. The…
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conservation | Nature | Rivers | Wilderness
If Otters Could Vote- Yes on Saving the Lostine!
(January 2021 Update: I’m sad to report that the Lostine logging is going forward likely in winter,…
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architecture | birds | conservation | Nature | trees
Swift Ballet
Aerial ballet. A thousand sky dancers spin around the brick chimney. Gather to watch in downtown Bend,…
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backyards | butterflies | conservation | flowers | Nature
Everywhere is Home
Home. Wake to the whir of rufous hummingbird wings outside our bedroom window. Rise to feed our…
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conservation | hiking | Nature | Rivers
Dave Richie and friends: Why the Appalachian Trail has Soul and Body today
Last Saturday, I listened to one fine conservationist after another sharing stories about my dad Dave Richie,…
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bees | birds | butterflies | flowers | Nature
In Praise of Bees in Our Yards
A burly bumblebee nose dives into the unfurling gold petals of a California poppy and vanishes. I…
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birds | butterflies | camping | Nature | Rivers
Metolius River – Birds, Bliss & Butterflies
Saunter. This is the way to know the Metolius River in June. A Common Yellowthroat (a sunny…
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Kingfishers Nesting at Fossil Point
Evening sunlight melts like golden honey oozing from the Pacific horizon across Coos Bay to lap upon…
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